Raising turkeys and chickens together on pasture: Does it work?
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If you are watching this video, you are probably interested in raising turkeys and chickens together on pasture. We have been raising chickens and turkeys together, and they get along well. We'll about rotational grazing, housing chickens and turkeys, protection, and much more.
This video shows you how we raise our poultry and move our mobile chicken coop and turkey roost to keep our birds on fresh grass.
We also use the Premier One PoultryNet® Plus Electric Netting and Solar IntelliShock® 60 Energizer to add an extra layer of protection for our chickens. This fencing surrounds our mobile chicken tractor and gives us about three days of grazing.
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0:00 Intro
0:40 Pasture intro
1:07 Premier One PoultryNet® Plus Electric Netting
1:22 Turkey temperament
2:08 Mobile chicken coop & Mobile Roost
4:10 Premier One Electric Netting security
5:14 Turkeys & Chickens escaping
5:57 Pasture rotation
7:42 Turkeys need higher protein
8:37 Turkeys and Blackhead
9:12 Adjusting to changes
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I had Turkeys as pets
Your farm is beautiful! A lot of great tips. Nice portable equipment too 🤙
Thanks for the kind words!
Great pasture!
Iv had my 15 hens and rooster with my orlopp bronse tom and 5 hens. . They take turns nesting eggs . Truly compatable
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
I don't have a garden, at least for now, so no birds for me, but i did have one growing up, and lots of animals. Even if i cannot use your advice, i watch with interest your videos, since i find them very relaxing, especially after a long day at work. So thank you for your videos, and the best of luck to your wonderfull familly and with your cute birds. ❤
Thank you for the kind words and encouragement! my wife does the same thing we think she’s wanting to learn. We take everything one bite at a time and know that if we had all we wanted, we’d be overwhelmed.
Absolutely gorgeous pasture!!!
Thanks for the kind words! We are blessed to be on it!!!
Lucky, my chickens jumped right out of the fence no problem, all 17, I just gave up on using it.
Sorry to hear that. Did you clip their wings?
Thanks for sharing your practical information 😊😊😊
Glad it was helpful!
Birds are very cool and cute
Thanks and agreed!
Looks very animal-friendly! Great!
Thanks!
About why hawk attacks decrease when you have turkeys.
Turkeys grew up around hawks and eagles in the wild and developed instincts to stay alive. Chickens did not. Turkeys have much better sensory abilities and raise the alarm for everyone near them as well
Also, hawks don’t like to mess with any black birds, as crows routinely decide to attack hawks. Keeping a large black chicken or Turkey will greatly reduce the risk.
Agreed. We have a few black Austra Lorup‘s in our flock. We also have crows that frequent our area and keep the Hawks away. Thanks for sharing your insights!
Nice to meet you at Roots today
You too!
Great vid. Amazing set up. Everyone looks so calm.
Thank you! Everyone has been getting along together!
Hello! I'm curious, with pasture chickens, do you encounter sour crop with the longer length of grass? We just brought our city chickens with us into the country and hope to pasture feed them this summer (as well with adding in broilers and turkeys). Thank you!
I had to look it up, but I don't ever recall experiencing that with our girls. They've gone from the brooder straight to the pasture though, so I'm not sure if that is different that what your girls are eating.
Have you had any issues with toms topping hens and hurting them. Thinking about adding turkeys but dont want to stress my hens out. We do have 3 roosters with about 40 hens. Was going to add one tom and two female turkeys to start
When you say topping hens, do you mean attacking/pecking them? I think as long as they have enough space they should be okay. They didn’t really bother each other. We started running out of space though because we got more chickens so we sold our turkeys and are focusing on breeding two types of chickens. I think the survivability rate of turkeys is about 60% (double check that). You’re going to want to buy more than you think you’ll end up with, since some of them won’t make it.
As long as the toms have turkey hens, it won’t be an issue
Planning to have one turkey and one Guinea😊 fowl with 18 chickens, is this a good idea?
I’d definitely do that. We sold most of our turkeys once they got older because we did not have enough space. They need a lot of room to roam around so I think one would be a good idea or maybe a Tom and a hen.
How much land do you have for your birds?
We're currently on about 10 acres, but only use a fraction of that. I don't like them to get too far away from the house because of coyotes, dogs, hawks, etc. We move the coops within the fence daily and then move the fence once a week. Hope that helps!
I feed my chickens and turkeys the same feed. 22% from Tucker Mills.
Thanks for sharing. We love Tucker Mills too!
So it’s okay to out turkeys around chickens?
We didn’t have an issue with it, but I guess it how much space they have and how many of each breed.
I can't raise them together because of blackhead. 😢
Sorry to hear that. ☹️
My family has the same issue. We keep getting turkies and they always get sick, only a couple of them survived. I read that it is spread through chicken poop, and the turkies always end up pecking, scritching, or drinking water that has poop in it. It is probably our fault not keeping the coop sanitary, but I need to do more research.
Do they make churkeys?
No, they make turkens 😂
Anyone have tried and tested advice for preventing turkey piling when they are a little older, say, maybe 3 weeks old and fairly feathered? Basically, right before they are ready to go outside. For whatever reason, this is my biggest challenge with turkeys, otherwise I love'em and am quite successful with raising them. Last year I lost about 50% of my flock. I'd come check them in the morning and there would always be one squished. It was not a heat issue, by the way. I was able to crank it up to make sure they weren't huddling to keep warm. They just seem to love to sleep in a pile and the weakling always gets buried under. I also rounded the corners of the brooder. Didn't help much. So any other advice before this season begins??? Thanks!
I'll have to ask my wife how old they were we we put them on pasture, but we haven't had an issue with piling. We have another video on the channel about our chick brooder and that is what we raised the poults in. I've heard people say that about 60% of turkeys make it to adulthood, but not sure if that's true. We've been about close to that though on multiple pastures and being raised with/without chickens.
im planning to get a turkey with my chickens should i get male or female
We had both so I’m not really sure. A lot of people will have one Tom and they’re usually fine.
ever seen a turkey fight a rooster?
Nope. Ours got along well
I always heard chickens and turkeys shouldn't be kept together. Has to do with diseases.
It’s possible for chickens to pass blackhead off to turkeys if it’s prevalent in your area. If it isn’t, there’s no issue.